Gotta agree that I’m ALWAYS on the market for a good split screen/two player co-op game. Wife and I just bought a PS5 and bought Sackboy for $15 at Walmart. So much fun! Sadly we’re struggling to find other good co-op games to play together…

They won't experience the specific wear that people identify as stick drift, but they are not magic. Physical parts will always wear out eventually, and depending on how they mapped these the smaller deadzone common to Hall Effect sticks means you'll start noticing that mechanical slop sooner. They can also be affected by repeated strong magnetic fields, but those aren't super common. They also can only track motion, not position, so you have to be more careful to never be touching to stick when powering on the device. You might remember that same phenomenon from some older controllers, Sega used hall effect joysticks for awhile, but hopefully these have standby power so it's not a frequent issue.

I added short term because this problem is temporary. To solve this problem, you had to solve this problem in the last two years, or otherwise have a magic ball to tell you COVID was going to impact chips the way it did and act before the pandemic.

There is nothing 'to be done eventually.' Chips will come back in stock eventually, board production will continue. You just want to say 'throw more money at it' like it will solve all the problems without understanding the problems. I literally work with PCB manufacturers on a daily basis.

You're also missing the point. The camera budget was likely independent of the production budget. Even if they canceled the camera entirely, it is unlikely to have had an impact on production over the last two years. Budgeting was not the problem, you can read Eben Upton's post about it. It's all been about chips, and any reasonable solution would have taken longer than the pandemic or impacted support of its products.

Oh my god, someone might enjoy nature differently than you do! Oh the humanity!

“the NYXI Wizard’s joysticks will never experience drift. That’s because they rely on magnetic Hall Effect sensors to detect movements, instead of mechanical linkages, which wear out over time.”

This proven to be true?

As i do not use a lens i can only go by the documentation. The 6mm one should fit and work correctly while the 16mm one will not. The reason seem to lie with the senor used. Again should I am not saying it will.

> To my limited understand of the problems that the Raspberry Pi foundation is facing, I do not think there is anything reasonable that can be done to accelerate the manufacturing of boards in the short term.

That's just goalpost moving. "short term" was never implied nor stated.

You added "short term" because you know there's some stuff to be done eventually.

And if there's some stuff to be done eventually, then I'm right to say that the budget spending on bringing this cam to market should have been invested into accelerating the manufacturing, is a VALID opinion to have.

As someone else pointed out to me, fighting games (like Street Fighter) and sports games (like Madden and FIFA) still have local multiplayer. But that is a far cry from the olden days of local couch multiplayer or co-op. And none of these are split-screen.

It's really too bad, because those kinds of games were a ton of fun. I wonder if they will see a resurgence at some point in the future? Seems like something someone might tap into at some point and people go crazy for it in some way that results in a few fairly high profile games in a relitively short period of time.

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Ordered just the one from Pi Hut this morning and dispatched earlier today. One of the lucky ones!

>What games would even require two controllers?

Completely not on topic but I fucking hate how the gaming industry successfully made it almost a requirement that it's 1 person per console if you want to game with friends or family.

Have two kids that are heavy gamers that want to play games with each other? Two PS5s.

Who the fuck said it’s horrid? I’ve used a bunch of current gen gaming devices this past year and it’s probably the best controller out right now. It’s in my top two current gen gaming items right behind the steam deck.

To my limited understand of the problems that the Raspberry Pi foundation is facing, I do not think there is anything reasonable that can be done to accelerate the manufacturing of boards in the short term.

I also do not think it is likely that the Pi foundation can reasonable increase the 'top maximal optimization possible' when it's Sony fabricating the boards, and a chip shortage that is probably related to Broadcom and more suppliers.

It may be possible for them to switch some chip suppliers and release variations of their boards, but they also have to 'optimize' with their ability to support the boards for 10+ years, one of the core foundations of the organization.

Who cares, when you can't get a PI to save your life, what will I mount the camera to?

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Why not. In a ICE you can recover some wasted heat with a turbocharger. How do you recover wasted heat with a CPU? In fact you have to use more energy to cool it.

That's true. I forget that Sports games exist that people multi-play locally. But that's fair. Especially if they push this harder outside of North America.

The first two controllers I got (one with the console and one bought separately) had pretty severe stick drift issues after only a couple of months.

FIFA. Tekken, Street fighter, NBA etc

LLVM made porting across architectures much easier than it ever was.

Yup, I bought a pretty good laptop for 100 dollars at Best Buy, installed Linux and I truly can't believe you can beat that value.

I did answer your question, answer mines. Otherwise this is just you asking wide empty questions without ever being responsible for what you implies.

I'm trying to understand what you think the bottleneck is that tossing more money would simply solve. Most R&D takes years to have results, and typically budgets have money set aside. It isn't about spending $1M on camera development board or $3M on fab, it can often be an independent decision.

Are you implying that the problem isn't primarily being supply constrained on chips? Or do you think Sony UK Technology Centre is having issues making boards?

Only other thing I considered doing was setting up a twitter bot that tweeted out the largest donors to politicians that voted to overturn the 2020 election. fec.gov tracks all political donations, including basic info on individual donors. They have an API through which you can query data like any other API. I messed around for a while and got pretty much what I wanted out of some basic Python scripts.

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What I wanted to do (before several life events got in the way in 2022) was set up a service on my second Raspberry Pi which periodically queried the FEC API for the largest recent donors to this list of politicians. Then I would have a twitter account specifically set up to tweet the results. I was gonna call it "Insurrectionist Tracker" or something like that. Anyway, ended up only being able to get the python scripts to run locally on my windows PC, never set up the second Pi. I also was definitely not going to learn how to use the Twitter API in any reasonable amount of time. And now things are extra screwed cause of how Musk is handling things. Maybe I'll make a website or something.

I agree here. Personally I love the purple one, but I of course got a white one with the ps5 and got the GoW one. Having a second one is nice so I can hot swap if the battery is low. However, I feel like I'm shut out of even considering getting that purple one. I mean, if it's hard to justify a second, why would I ever think of getting a third?!

Personally I wish instead of these two controller versions they'd have a no controller version with either a voucher for one at the same price or for $50+ cheaper.